Case Study: Ludwig Maximilian Universität achieves standardized, high-performance, high-availability storage with NexentaStor (Nexenta)

Faculty of Physics at LMU meet Storage Challenges by Switching to NexentaStor

Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich, home to a world-class Faculty of Physics, faced a fragmented approach to storage procurement across its campuses. The IT team needed a standardized, high-performance SAN that could support virtualized and HPC workloads, provide transparent failover and high availability, scale across departments, and avoid costly vendor lock-in.

LMU chose NexentaStor software-defined storage on standard SuperMicro hardware, deployed as high-availability clusters by partner BASIS. Leveraging ZFS features (self-healing, virtually unlimited snapshots, and hybrid caching), the solution delivered massive scalability, strong HPC performance, prevention of data corruption, simplified management, lower lifecycle costs and effectively 100% uptime—leading to wider adoption across the university.

Ludwig Maximilian Universität

Klaus Steinberger

Head of IT